A Case of Herpetic Folliculitis

Moon, Seok Ki; Kim, Chan Woo; Shin, Dong Hoon; Choi, Jong Soo; Kim, Ki Hong

Abstract

The histopathological findings of herpes virus infection of the skin are characterized as an intraepidermal vesicle formed by acantholysis with ballooning degeneration of keratinocytes and multinucleated keratinocytes. Involvement of follicular epithelium is known to occur as herpetic folliculitis. Although herpetic skin infection is very common, herpetic folliculitis is infrequently reported in the literature. It is important to confirm the diagnosis by histopathologic finding because of its atypically clinical manifestation. We report an unusual case in which typical clinical features of herpes virus infection were absent and histopathologically characterized by herpetic folliculitis without surface epithelium change.